Mazda MX-5: Now with a retractable hardtop

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Straight from the horse�s mouth: mazda.com/publicity/release/200606/0620.html

More photos (just the first four though).
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MG Man · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 7:10 pm Post subject:

they moving further away from the purist sports car
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NarendZORCE · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 1:02 am Post subject:

Wha! bling bling... Cool but heavy. SLK aspirants are currently all-hailing Mazda.

mazda6dude · Pumpum Conqueror Joined: 05 Aug 2006 Posts: 24

this is wonderful for those MX-5 fans who claimed that their canvas top discoloured or teared over the years. Mazda has been selling Miatas 17yrs now and with over 750,000 sold to date they must have gotten enough emails and letters from owners that a hard-top should be made too. A hard top with the automatic would be heavy for hard core MX-5 fans but compared to the wider cheap sports compact world, its still a light vehicle. I would go for the true convertible with the 6-speed stick.

They are just making the car appeal to more people. Mazda engineered this on their own whereas Mitsubishi sourced their hard-top on the Eclipse from the American Sunroof Company I think. I maybe wrong.